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Five ways that brands can engage vloggers

Creative Communications Director, Heather Healy, shares her top five tips for making sure that brands engage with the right vloggers.

SEMI-PERMANENT 2013 TITLES by Danny Yount

Great new title sequence by Danny Yount

BALADA - ISAT - collection of Spots

A lovely collection of spots, created by InJaus Design

FMX 2013 Trailers

A few of great little trailers for the 2013 FMX conference. Showing a keen eye for creative detail and visual animation.

A fun, short, creative collection.

G Star Advert - by Glassworks

Beautiful Macro animation by Glassworks for G Star. Its a fluid dance through the manufacture of a unique pair of jeans. I like the randomness of the end reveal!

Allan McKay 2013 Reel

The Well known and well renowned Allan McKay releases his latest VFX reel for 2013 with bits and bobs that he has been involved in over the part year or two. Some great particle effects from the God of War spot as well as some fantastic Transformers VFX in there for good measure. This accomplished VFX supervisor and teacher has been at the top end of our industry for going on 10 years! I remember flicking through hios stuff before he completed teh Blade VFX and thinking this stuff looks great, it stands up well even now! Well Done..

Paperman - Walt Disney Short (UPDATE)

Introducing a groundbreaking technique that seamlessly merges computer-generated and hand-drawn animation techniques, first-time director John Kahrs takes the art of animation in a bold new direction with the Oscar®-nominated short, "Paperman." 

Uses a minimalist black-and-white style, the short follows the story of a lonely young man in mid-century New York City, whose destiny takes an unexpected turn after a chance meeting with a beautiful woman on his morning commute. Convinced the girl of his dreams is gone forever, he gets a second chance when he spots her in a skyscraper window across the avenue from his office. With only his heart, imagination and a stack of papers to get her attention, his efforts are no match for what the fates have in store for him.

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UPDATE - This won "Best Animated Short Film 2013" at the Oscars. Congratulations to Disney!

People are Awesome 2013!

People are awesome! 
Wow, this is a who's who of 2012 meme's and viral physical clips.

Great though!

IllumiRoom by Microsoft

Microsoft unveiled a new immersive gaming concept, called 'IllumiRoom', at CES 2013.

3d Max 2013 - Media Sync Workflow

Don't let the image fool you, this video is gold dust to people like us!

Finally after years of being stood out in the cold to composition tools like Combustion and Smoke/Flame, After effects users are finally getting the interaction we have so sorely needed.

I have been using Max-to-AE for a number of years prior to this as my main interoperability tool between Max and After Effects, and I have to say that when I first saw this functionality I  was reluctant to switch our pipeline, however this video is a great "walk through" of the new features available in 3D max 2013, and goes a long way to helping old and new 'hands' get used to using their bidirectional workflow.

Sorry Max-to-AE I fear your days are numbered.

2013 - Tech Predictions

So, I love and hate these kind of posts, but find myself constantly referring and confirming or denying the "future".

Here are Read Write Web's 7 biggest predictions:

TRAILER - Burn to Shine

A trailer from the UnderDogs Animation Studio of their up and coming short feature called Burn To Shine. Looks good so far lads!

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3D Studio Max - Sneek Peeks

Well, there have been a number of these snippet, little, cheeky videos released over the pass few months, all from different people and with an odd variety subjects and video quality - so, with a marketing man's head on I'm not sure what is going on. Are these attempts at viral intrigue, or releases fro people within Autodesk HQ, or what....

But...With a 3D Artists' head on, wow! I think, at least I hope that some or all of these little 'sneek peeks' make it into the final build version (either 2013 or 2014), because some of these are fantastic!

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